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A CPU overheating is still completely different from the wiring or other components heating up. It is entirely monitored, can throttle itself or shut down through OOB controls.

It's more likely for your plane to be hit by a falling unicorn than you being able to burn something up just by the power of `while (1)`.



This genuinely made me laugh out loud.




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